Mahara collections were used to design the template that our full time non advanced learners had to work through, made more accessible through learner feedback.

1. Using online personal
learning plans at Forth
Valley College
Thursday 4th July 2013
Mahara UK, Birmingham
Jasmin Hodge

2. Today's Session
•The decision to take Personal Learning Plans, Online
•How we made the plan ‘digital’
•The pro’s and con’s
•The future and lessons learnt
•Opportunity to take a PLP home.

3. The online PLP journey….
•Over 10K non advanced learners completed a paper based
Personal Learning Plan with support of Learner Development
Workers (LDW’s);
•A new approach was needed to engage learners in the
essential PLP process;
•An online PLP was developed using templates created with
Mahara pages;

4. The online PLP journey….
•How we launched and how many people shouted at us;
•Pro’s and con’s;
•Lesson’s learnt;
•Take a look and help yourself to a copy.

5. Group Activity
Using the details provided, log onto:
http://moodle.forthvalley.ac.uk/mahara

6. Download an Online PLP
•Go to: Portfolio menu>Collections
•Click on: Copy a Collection button
•Search pages for: Personal Learning Plan
•Click on: Copy Collection button next to the title.

7. Summary and the future
• An online PLP model is sustainability, embeds essential
digital skills and gives learners independence to allow them
to contribute more to their own learning.
• We are currently redeveloping the PLP pages with the team
to try and reduce the 12 pages and a more intuitive
submission process.
“ePortfolios are learners own stories of what they
know”

8. Thank you.
Jasmin Hodge
Organisational Learning Co-ordinator
http://about.me/jasminhodge
“Knowing about things……Knowing yourself”
With thanks to Dawn Corley for quotes